For the first time, the MTV Video Music Awards didn’t start with music, but with a speech lasting several minutes.

Taylor Swift sure got the full MTV treatment Sunday night, complete with a win and a Kanye West rant.

Changes are coming to one of America’s most popular tv shows. After weeks of wondering, we now know who will replace Paula Abdul on “American Idol”. ABC News’ Andrea Canning has more in a Stars on 6 Report.

Frank Batten, who built a communications empire that spanned newspapers and cable television and created The Weather Channel, has died. He was 82. Batten was the retired chairman of privately held Landmark Communications and a former chairman of the board of The Associated Press.

Janet Jackson will pay tribute to her late brother at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety kept tabs on various Hollywood doings for more than a half-century, has died. He was 87.

Class is officially in session for Tony Danza in Philadelphia. The former “Who’s the Boss?“ and “Taxi” star is filming an A&E reality show called “Teach.“

America’s best known cake master is in South Carolina. The University of South Carolina says Duff Goldman came to the school Wednesday to help judge a daylong cake decorating competition featuring 20 student teams.

Charlie Gibson, the anchor of ‘ABC World News’, announced that he will step down as anchor effective at the end of the year.

Five months have passed since Candy Spelling put The Manor up for sale and it’s still on the market.

ABC is adding Kate Gosselin to the list of guest co-hosts for “The View.“

Eddie Cibrian is divorcing his wife of nearly eight years.

Don Imus and the RFD cable network say they’ve mutually agreed to end the TV simulcast of Imus’ weekday radio talk show.

TMZ.com reports TLC is not happy with Jon Gosselin, but Jonnie boy may not care, because he has his sights set on a new show.

UPDATE: Former House GOP Leader Tom DeLay added to Dancing With The Stars.  Sixteen celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sports will be tango-ing and foxtrotting on the new season of “Dancing With the Stars.“  The show’s largest cast ever includes singers Mya and Macy Gray; actors Melissa Joan Hart and Ashley Hamilton; model Kathy Ireland; reality star Mark Dacascos; former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin and entertainer Donnie Osmond.

Sources close to Kate Gosselin tell TMZ.com she was the one who called 911 last Friday night after she and Jon got into a blowout.

ABC is one of the many suitors hoping to get dibs on Paula Abdul now that she’s left American Idol.

Eight is enough. Paula Abdul will not be back for season nine of “American Idol”. Sabrina Sabbagh reports. Also let us know if you think viewership of “American Idol” will decline without Paula at the judges table, in our web poll.

TLC says the return of new episodes of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” delivered a robust audience on Monday. But it was nothing like the crowd of 10.6 million viewers who tuned in on June 22 when the Gosselins revealed their decision to separate.

Paula Deen is quite a ham. The celebrity chef worked with Smithfield Foods on Wednesday to donate 25,000 pounds of ham to America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia. The Savannah resident pitched hams out of the back of a truck to onlookers and supporters gathered as part of Smithfield’s Helping Hungry Homes initiative.

Hulk Hogan and his wife have finally reached a settlement in their divorce case. The 55-year-old celebrity wrestler - whose real name is Terry Bollea - said in court Tuesday morning that he and his wife, Linda, have agreed to the terms of the split. The divorce was finalized during a brief hearing.

Mischa Barton is out of the hospital and plans a return to work almost two weeks after Los Angeles police say they escorted her for an undisclosed medical problem.

Kiefer Sutherland is officially off the hook for that whole headbutting incident in NYC back in May…because it amounted to a bunch of nothing.

Handlers say Gidget the Chihuahua, whose Taco Bell commercials made her a star, has died. She was 15. The owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic says Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday at her trainer’s home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized.

You’ve now got another free local channel to watch. Our news partner, WFXG FOX 54, announced it’s launching its new “digital” channel.

A new three-year deal for Ryan Seacrest will keep him hosting “American Idol” as well as pursuing new projects.

Just under 31 million people in the United States watched the Michael Jackson memorial on television. Nielsen Media Research says that’s a smaller audience than for Princess Diana’s funeral or President Barack Obama’s inauguration - but it’s still impressive in today’s TV world. Millions more watched video streams on their computers.

An actress who starred on the hit television series “Three’s Company” has been arrested in Southern California and cited for drunken driving. Police say Joyce DeWitt, who played the character Janet Wood on the popular show, was pulled over Saturday afternoon after she drove past a barricade near a park in El Segundo.

Dane Cook’s half brother is facing new charges in Massachusetts that he allegedly stole more than $11 million from the comedian.

The life of “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett was celebrated at a private funeral in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. Her longtime companion, Ryan O’Neal, was among pallbearers who accompanied the casket, covered in yellow and orange flowers, into the Roman Catholic cathedral Tuesday afternoon.